In 1933, when America was mired deeply in the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt came into office and launched federal policies to revive the economy. Many now remember well his New Deal policies. But, there were some at the time — particularly well-heeled leaders in the American business community — who adamantly opposed the federal government involving itself in the private sector. Based on research in the national archives, the BBC investigation suggests that titans of the industrial and financial world, including Prescott Bush (the grandfather of our sitting president), were linked to, if not directly backing, a plot that would have Maj.-Gen. Smedley Butler, a highly decorated Marine, lead a 500,000 private army and push Roosevelt out of power.
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I’m aware of this. In the same vein, JFK privately expressed concerns about the potential for a military coup if he pushed too far for negotiated settlements with Moscow. I think I read this in Randall Woods’ biography of LBJ or David Halberstm’s The Best and the Brightest.
The first volume of the late Arthur Schlesinger Jr’s biography of FDR notes that a young Major Dwight Eisenhower assisted General Douglas MacArthur in crushing a protest staged by World War I veterans in Washington DC.
That audio link is about Roma, try this one instead.
Interesting shades of Bushco/Blackwater
Whats interesting that this imformation is basically unknown to the general public;Patton also assist MacArthur in routing veterans who had assembles in Wash. to protest, the pay that was promise but not delivered,in actuality the forerunner to the G.I.bill
The Plot to Take Over America…truth is stranger than fiction http://t.co/7lBwlR5E